Stanford Law Clinic Announces Journalist Held by U.S. Department of Defense in Bagram, Afghanistan Has Been Released

Business Wire, Sept 23, 2008

About the International Human Rights Clinic

The International Humans Rights Clinic provides students with the opportunity to travel to Africa to engage in cutting-edge work in the area of international human rights and the development of the rule of law.

Most recently, the program has focused its work on Namibia. Students spent the winter quarter at Stanford Law with clinic faculty studying the historical, cultural, and legal context of Namibia, and conducting outreach to Namibian leaders. In the spring, the students and faculty traveled to Namibia to work with their clients on their projects. The students drafted anti-torture statutes, collaborated with agencies providing services to AIDS patients, worked with the judiciary on creating methods of disseminating precedents and worked with indigenous populations to memorialize their legal rules.

In past years, students have worked with a Ghanaian organization interviewing scores of detainees in police detention centers, calling attention to individual cases and helping to create a framework for more general challenges to the conditions of confinement. Other students have worked with lawyers and community groups furthering human rights in areas such as the right to healthcare.

About Stanford Law School

Stanford Law School is one of the nation's leading institutions for legal scholarship and education. Its alumni are among the most influential decision makers in law, politics, business, and high technology. Faculty members argue before the Supreme Court, testify before Congress, and write books and articles for academic audiences, as well as the popular press. Along with offering traditional law school classes, the school has embraced new subjects and new ways of teaching. The school's home page is located at www.law.stanford.edu.

About the International Justice Network

The International Justice Network ("IJNetwork") is a United States-based non-profit humanitarian organization that provides legal assistance to victims of human rights abuses. IJNetwork filed the first legal cases on behalf of detainees held without charge at Bagram in 2006 and remains the only international organization to provide direct legal assistance to individuals illegally detained by the United States government in Afghanistan.